Kay's Gallery-Neal Productions

I worked for a company called Neal Productions, for nearly 5 years, and created several costumes for their shows. I started out as just scheduling shows, but worked my way up to costumer, script writer, and performer. I still scheduled the shows the whole time, though. So, in theatre, you must be very versatile. Did we make money? No, but we had a lot of fun performing for the Northern Ky. and Cincinnati area daycares, pre-schools and retirement homes.

In our children's shows, we enjoyed interacting with the children. Our shows encouraged them to practice the important values of self-esteem, friendship, respect, and sharing their love with others, while helping them in areas of problem solving and fundamental education. We tried to get the children involved in our shows, so that they could feel a part of the story. We also knew that having them involved keeps their attention, and as they helped the characters solve problems, the children learned how to solve problems on their own. We always encouraged them to "ask an adult" when something was too hard for them to decide.

I wanted to share our stories and hopefully encourage people to take an interest in using their talents. You don't have to be the best, just willing. Below are photos of some of our shows. I hope you enjoy them.

Christmas, Neal Productions' Style

THE GIFT OF LOVE--1998
Little Mary Melody (played by me) is excited about getting her new Christmas toys, and announces to her best friend and favorite toy, Velvet the Rabbit (Dave Neal), that she is getting rid of all her old toys, to make room for all the new ones she is getting for Christmas. Velvet is upset because he thinks that Mary is going to get rid of him too, since he's one of her toys. Mrs. Claus (Linda Nie) encourages Velvet to talk to Mary, but he's too afraid, and decides to run away. Mrs. Claus tells Mary that Velvet is upset, because he thinks Mary is going to get rid of him. When Velvet starts to run away, Mary and Mrs. Claus stop him, and Mary tells him that she could never give away her best friend and favorite toy. The misunderstanding is cleared up, and they all celebrated the joyous occasion.	Velvet the Rabbit (Dave Neal) and his real life daughter, Alura.
WILL THERE BE A CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR?--Christmas 1999
Santa fell and got hurt right before Christmas. Mrs. Claus and Kris, Jr. discuss with the kids, what will happen if Santa can't deliver the toys for Christmas. Kris, Jr. doesn't believe that he could ever fill Santa's shoes, but the children, and Mrs. Claus believe. Kris finally decides he is going to do it, but Santa gets well and Kris decides to tag along for the ride, to help Santa out.	Serena Snowflake played an important part in helping Kris, Jr. with his quest to gain confidence, and she even provided snow in our area on Christmas Day that year.
Mrs. Claus??? This lady is the 1999 Mrs. Claus (Linda Nie), whom we think is Miss Kitty from GUNSMOKE, but we don't know for sure.	The cast and crew.

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Theatrical Links

Les Miserables
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Actor's Equity Union
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More Neal Productions

INTO THE SEA--Summer 1999
Miss C-Sea Crab and her friends, Stuart Starfish, Occie the Octopus, Diver Dave and Sandy Seahorse learn the value of friendship and courage. C-Sea is easily scared and Sandy takes advantage of that and makes fun of C-Sea. But when it is Sandy's turn to be afraid, it's not so funny. Sandy learns that teasing others hurts their feelings and makes them feel bad about themselves. C-Sea learns not to let her imagination run too wild by creating fears that are not real.	Sandy learned a valuable lesson and she encourages Miss C-Sea to be brave. They now have become life-long friends.
Stuart Starfish, and Occie the Octopus, live in Occie's underwater castle and share many adventures with their friends Diver Dave, Miss C-Sea Crab and Sandy Seahorse.	Diver Dave leads the kids in a song and dance. He helped Sandy understand that scaring C-Sea wasn't good, and played a part in starting a wonderful friendship.
Musical Revues
In this picture I was playing Rose from SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.	Here I am as the character Maxine from Neal Productions' Spring '95 tour.
HEAT WAVE LUAU Like the grass skirt? Well this is me as Roxie in the another Neal Productions show. I got to throw that guy around a little, but it was all in fun. That was a role I enjoyed too much. ;-)

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